carabao

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish carabao, from Waray-Waray karabaw, from Malay kerbau, from Proto-Malayic *kAr(ə)baw, ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh (“buffalo”). Compare Khmer ក្របី (krɑbəy), Halang kơpùa, Indonesian kerbau, Javanese ꦏꦼꦧꦺꦴ (kebo), Thai กระบือ (grà-bʉʉ). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kæɹəˈbeɪəʊ/ === Noun === carabao (plural carabaos) A domesticated subspecies of water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis carabanesis. Synonym: kerbau (Brunei, Malaysia) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === carabao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Bubalus bubalis carabanesis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Waray-Waray karabaw, from Malay kerbau, from Proto-Malayic *kAr(ə)baw, ultimately from Austroasiatic; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh (“buffalo”), whence Khmer ក្របី (krɑbəy, “water buffalo”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kaɾaˈbao/ [ka.ɾaˈβ̞a.o] Rhymes: -ao Syllabification: ca‧ra‧ba‧o === Noun === carabao m (plural carabaos, feminine caraballa, feminine plural caraballas) water buffalo ==== Descendants ==== → English: carabao → Tagalog: kalabaw === References === === Further reading === “carabao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025